TAIWAN IN DYNAMIC TRANSITION CONFERENCE

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

May 25-26, 2013

Description

The international conference “Taiwan in Dynamic Transition,” hosted by the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta, will take place on May 25-26. At the conference, distinguished scholars from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States will present original research on some of the most salient aspects of Taiwan’s social, political, and cultural transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The experts participating in this interdisciplinary conference represent a range of academic disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Their presentations pertain to such topics as the influence of political discourse and education on the imagination of Taiwanese history and identity; democratization and political reform at local and national levels; cultural, racial, and gender tensions as seen through the lens of popular literature; Taiwan as a provider of foreign aid and developmental expertise; the influence of global norms on Taiwanese society and political institutions.

Jennifer Wei, English Department, Soochow University “Familial Metaphors in Taiwanese Campaign Rhetoric: a comparative study of Mme. CKS and Annette Lu, and of Tsai Ing-wen in contrast”

I-Hsin Hsiao, Department of Sociology, University of Essex “A New Form of National Imagination in the High School History Curriculum: On the Non-Linear Development of Taiwanese History Course during Lee Teng-Hui and Chen Shui-Bian Eras”

Discussant: Maukuei Chang, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica

11:00-12:30 The Political Dimension: Political and Legal Reform

Panel Chair: Gordon Houlden, China Institute, University of Alberta

Presenters:

Jiunn-rong Yeh, National Taiwan University Law School “The Legacy of Incremental Constitutional Reform in Taiwan”